35. El molcajete

We come from the stone age:
the magic happens here.

It is medicine, 
nutrients, seed,
sauce

cornerstone

sediment of history
the centre
holds

heavy
cold, totemic-
it is everything

multiple
make, serve,
be.

Basalt 
broken in
before it works:

Texolotl
and Molcaxitl
need each other.

We come from the stone age:
this is the tool

no life without
its power

Sooner or later you need to have one
you may have forgotten it is so essential.

You will carry its weight.

Those who came before us
joined the earth with theirs. 

Carved into it,
the cosmos

indefinible.

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